Think Quotes

Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word 'fear' from my vocabulary, and I think when you erase fear, you can't fail.

~ Alicia Keys

I think you can have 10,000 explanations for failure, but no good explanation for success.

~ Paulo Coelho

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

~ Louis C. K.

I think somehow you need to get to a certain point in your life where the notion of failure is absurd.

~ Jeff Tweedy

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

~ Sandra Bullock

You look at any culture, and prohibition has invariably been an unmitigated failure. It is just idiotic to criminalise any substance, I think.

~ Rhys Ifans

To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.

~ James Allen

I think that big, sort of theatrical relaunches tend to set you up for failure and hype.

~ Tina Brown

I think my whole life, because of where I came from, I had a fear of failure.

~ Howard Schultz

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.

~ James A. Baldwin

People think when you have a, quote, 'bank failure,' that that is the end of the bank. And it isn't necessarily.

~ Michele Bachmann

It's only a risk if you think there's a chance of failure.

~ Kimbal Musk

I don't think one should attribute the success and failure of a film to a single actor. When you decide to do a film, you weigh the pros and cons before taking a call. Only when you run out of patience, get insecure, and feel your career is heading nowhere do you sign anything that comes your way.

~ Rakul Preet Singh

We've all experienced those days when we feel like an absolute failure. It's a normal feeling when things don't go as exactly planned. And, when we feel like that, it's challenging to think of yourself as a successful individual.

~ John Rampton

I think there is a failure in foreign policy. And you have to acknowledge that under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton was the architect of that foreign policy. Whether it was malevolent or not, I don't know.

~ Mike Mccaul

Well, I think it's too early to call Fallujah a failure.

~ Chuck Schumer

I think to visualize failure as you're starting off is really a bad thing to do.

~ Marcia Gay Harden

I buy a lot of cookbooks. Some of them you just kind of read, and you try one recipe, and it doesn't really work. So then you don't go back to it. The new Ina Garten cookbook, which is called 'Back to Basics,' I have not had a failure with. It is the most fantastic cookbook. I think I bought 20 copies of it for friends.

~ Nora Ephron

I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.

~ Ted Sarandos

I think I'm less afraid of failure than some others.

~ Russell Simmons

I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

~ Lisa Marie Presley

I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a little after awhile but at that time there was no such word.

~ Roger Daltrey

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think.

~ Peter Berg

I think our failure as a caucus has been not to focus on economic issues. I think we - and I'm supportive of all the issues that - that we talk about, but you need an economic - a robust, economic message that - that covers everybody.

~ Tim Ryan

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

~ Ann Voskamp

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

~ Marcus Aurelius

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

~ Julian Lennon

I think it's not really difficult to write about love. We've been saying the same thing over and over for so many years. But it depends on how honest it is and how good you make it feel. You can say 'I love you' in a trillion ways, and it can always sound different or feel different.

~ Babyface

I think 'The Color Purple' is so bursting with love, the need for connection, the showing of the need for connection around the globe.

~ Alice Walker

I think careful cooking is love, don't you? The loveliest thing you can cook for someone who's close to you is about as nice a valentine as you can give.

~ Julia Child

I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.

~ Vladimir Nabokov

Love him and let him love you. Do you think anything else under heaven really matters?

~ James A. Baldwin

If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.

~ Jackie Kennedy

Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

~ Amy Chua

I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.

~ Harry Connick

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

~ Miguel De Cervantes

My dad was not super-intentional in his parenting. He was very self-absorbed. I won't say mean or selfish per se, but very self-absorbed. I think he was just thinking out loud.

~ Angela Duckworth

I do not think there was anything abusive in my house. Yet, I stand by a lot of my critiques of Western parenting. I think there's a lot of questions about how you instill true self-esteem.

~ Amy Chua

Parenting is meant to be just a natural part of life. You just think you know how to do it but, of course, it's much more complicated than that.

~ Essie Davis

I think we've moved to thinking of parenting and pregnancy as something in which you should lose yourself.

~ Emily Oster